Staff Picks
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Staff Picks
Hunch: Turn Your Everyday Insights Into the Next Big Thing
By Sally Haldorson
Bernadette Jiwa's new book is a reminder that we shouldn't surrender our human faculty to the advance of big data.
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How Cycling Can Save the World
By Blyth Meier
A manifesto for everyday cycling from The Guardian's Peter Walker is an urgent call for today's world.
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Double Bind: Women on Ambition
By Sally Haldorson
Robin Romm has edited a book of essays from successful women that takes on "the last feminist taboo"—ambition.
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Redefining Resilience and Telling a New Life Story: Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant's Option B
By Sally Haldorson
This is what Option B offers: for the grieving, a guide to recovery and resilience; for the empathetic, a guide to responding and respecting others whose life stories we can’t pretend to know.
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The Language of Loss is the Language of Life
By Sally Haldorson
Facing the loss of life requires a new kind of language, one that isn't secret, but shared.
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
By Blyth Meier
Adam Alter shines a light on behavioral addiction, and re-orients our relationship with the technologies we live with every day.
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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
By Blyth Meier
Tiffany Dufu helps us clarify what matters most—and what doesn't—so we can leverage our highest and best use at home and work.
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What our staff is reading this summer
By Blyth Meier
Summer means lazy vacations and digging in to a good book. Here's what's in our summer reading piles (a.k.a. beach bags).
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You Got This!: Unleash Your Awesomeness, Find Your Path, and Change Your World
By Blyth Meier
Maya S. Penn's must-read young adult business book is the perfect way to celebrate today's Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
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Born for This, and The Atomic Weight of Love (for What You Do)
By Sally Haldorson
In Born for This, Chris Guilllebeau has given us a primer on "any number of scenarios that create job dissatisfaction, and reveals tips and tricks on how to make a change."
Porchlight is a company filled with voracious readers—talented, creative individuals who know books, and who excel at moving them. Whenever we can, we like to do that by telling you about the books we’re reading.